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Office
725 Albany St
Emergency Department
Boston, MA 02118
Summary
- Christian Arbelaez, MD, MPH, is the Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center and BU School of Medicine. Before joining BMC, he was a physician leader at Brown Emergency Medicine and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. With more than 15 years of senior leadership experience, Dr. Arbelaez has a track record of mentoring and collaborating and built his academic career by helping to create academic programs and projects with multiple academic universities, and international organizations. Over the span of his 20-year professional career, his passion and “Ikigai” has been focused on vulnerable populations in the US and abroad through the development and expansion of programs, mentorship of junior colleagues, and Humanitarian assistance in the Navajo Nation, disaster relief efforts with Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake; and in a post-conflict Colombia with internally displaced communities and Venezuelan migrants.
Dr. Arbelaez received his MD from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He completed residency training at Brown Emergency Medicine. He earned an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has completed Executive Education from the Harvard Business School Brigham Physician Leadership program at Harvard Business School and the Hispanic Mid-Career Executive Leadership Fellowship from the NHMA/NYU Wagner School of Public Service Leadership Center.
Education & Training
- Brown UniversityResidency, Emergency Medicine, 2000 - 2004
- University of Texas Medical Branch School of MedicineClass of 2000
Certifications & Licensure
- MA State Medical License 2004 - 2025
- RI State Medical License 2001 - 2022
- American Board of Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 82 citationsEmergency provider attitudes and barriers to universal HIV testing in the emergency department.Christian Arbelaez, Elizabeth A. Wright, Elena Losina, Jennifer C. Millen, Simeon D. Kimmel
The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2012-01-01 - 34 citationsFactors associated with refusal of rapid HIV testing in an emergency department.Mary L. Pisculli, William M. Reichmann, Elena Losina, Laurel A. Donnell-Fink, Christian Arbelaez
AIDS and Behavior. 2011-05-01 - 11 citationsResource utilization and cost-effectiveness of counselor- vs. provider-based rapid point-of-care HIV screening in the emergency department.Rochelle P. Walensky, Bethany L. Morris, William M. Reichmann, A. David Paltiel, Christian Arbelaez
Plos One. 2011-10-12
Other
- Emergency airway management in the geriatric patientArbelaez C, Brown CA
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/emergency-airway-management-in-the-geriatric-patient
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-03-21 - Emergency airway management in the morbidly obese patientArbelaez C, Brown CA, Bartels S
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/emergency-airway-management-in-the-morbidly-obese-patient
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-10-18
Press Mentions
- Markey Promotes an Insulin Cap to Medicare Recipients at the Local Health CenterFebruary 24th, 2023
- Heat Wave Brings More People to the Hospital, Impacts the VulnerableJuly 23rd, 2022
- Hospitals Feel the Heat as Climate Change Bakes BostonJuly 22nd, 2022
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Professional Memberships
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Other Languages
- Spanish
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